ROTTERDAM, August 15 -- A brawl in parliament. A couple of Ukrainian lawmakers come to blows over the fight in the country's restive east.

Oleh Lyashko and Oleksandr Shev-chenko got into a fist fight in the parliament building in Kiev, with Shev-chenko saying that Lyashko has never even been to the area where Ukrainian forces are fighting pro-Russians. Lyashko, who surprised many by running third in the May presidential election, has built his image as a nationalist on social media. In one case, he posted a picture of himself standing over a suspected pro-Russian who had been bound and loaded into a car trunk.

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